Planetary Sciences
de Pater; Jack J. Lissauer; Imke
ISBN 10: 0521482194 ISBN 13: 9780521482196
Published by Cambridge, 2001
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Synopsis:
The Space Age, with lunar missions and interplanetary probes, has revolutionized our understanding of the Solar System. Planets and large moons have become familiar worlds, with a diverse range of properties. Large numbers of asteroids, comets and small moons have now been discovered, and many of these objects studied in detail. As a result, our understanding of the process of star and planet formation is increasing all the time. Planetary Sciences presents a comprehensive coverage of this fascinating and expanding field at a level appropriate for graduate students and researchers in the physical sciences. The book explains the wide variety of physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. Observations of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and planetary rings in our Solar System, as well as extrasolar planets, are described, and the process of planetary formation is discussed.
About the Authors:
Imke de Pater is a Professor at the University of California, in the departments of Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science. She was born in Hengelo, the Netherlands, in 1952 and received her Ph.D. cum Laude in 1980 from Leiden University. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1983, after which she moved to the University of California, Berkeley.
Jack J. Lissauer is a Space Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. He was born in San Francisco in 1957, received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. He held postdoctoral fellowships at NASA Ames and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was on the faculty of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, from 1987 to 1996.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Planetary Sciences
Publisher: Cambridge
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New